Name

timed-display —

ATTRIBUTES

Attribute Pos. Req. Default Description
start Yes Cache filename.
stop Yes Cache filename.
interpolate     0 interpolate input?
reparse     1 interpolate output?
hide     0 Hide the tag return value?

DESCRIPTION

BEHAVIOR

This tag does not appear to be affected by, or affect, the rest of Interchange.

EXAMPLES

No examples are available at this time. We do consider this a problem and will try to supply some.

NOTES

AVAILABILITY

timed-display is available in Interchange versions:

4.6.0-5.9.0 (git-head)

SOURCE

Interchange 5.9.0:

Source: code/UserTag/timed_display.tag
Lines: 77


UserTag timed-display Order start stop
UserTag timed-display HasEndTag
UserTag timed-display AddAttr 1
UserTag timed-display Routine <<EOR
sub {
my ($start, $stop, $opt, $body) = @_;

my $tv     = $opt->{tv};
my $adjust   = $opt->{adjust};
my $currtime = $tv && ($CGI->{$tv} || $Scratch->{$tv});

my $now = $Tag->convert_date({
  fmt     => '%Y%m%d%H%M',
  body   => $currtime,
  adjust => $adjust,
});
my $else = pull_else($body);

if (!$start){
  $start = $now - 1;
}
if (!$stop){
  $stop = '599900010000';#forever or at least after I die.
}

$start = $Tag->convert_date({
  fmt     => '%Y%m%d%H%M',
  body   => $start,
});
$stop = $Tag->convert_date({
  fmt     => '%Y%m%d%H%M',
  body   => $stop,
});
return $body if !$start;

if ($start <= $now and $now <= $stop){
  return $body;
}
else {
  return $else;
}
}


EOR

UserTag timed-display Documentation <<EOD

Purpose: To allow for date specific display of text or html in pages.

Usage: 

[timed-display start=2007060608 stop=2007060612]
Some text/code to display between June 06, 2007 between 8am and Noon.
[/timed-display]

For open ended display you can just specify a start date.  To start
immediately and end on a specific date you can just specify a stop
date.

The start and stop date use the convert_date tag, so you can use any
format acceptable by that tag to specify your start and stop
dates.  (See convert_date documentation for details.)

If the 'timevar' parameter is provided, instead of the current time
look first in the CGI and the Scratch variables with the provided name
for a date string to convert.  This allows you to provide a way to
test this behavior outside of the wall-clock time and see the actual
behavior at a specific time.

You can also use the 'adjust' parameter, which will pass its argument
directly on to the convert_date calls; this can be used to localize
the timezone relative to the server time.

EOD



AUTHORS

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